Alter (name)

Surname

• Avraham Mordechai Alter, Hasidic rabbi
• David Alter, American inventor
• Dinsmore Alter, American astronomer and meteorologist
• Harvey Alter, American virologist
• Hobart Alter, American businessman
• Israel Alter, Jewish composer and last chief cantor in Hanover, Germany
• Jonathan Alter, American journalist
• Karl Joseph Alter, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Louis Alter, American composer
• Michael Alter, American businessman
• Moshe Jacob Alter, Yiddish poet
• Pinchas Menachem Alter, Hassidic rabbi
• Robert Alter, Biblical scholar
• Stephen Alter, American author
• Simchah Bunim Alter, Hassidic rabbi
• Tom Alter, Indian actor
• Yaakov Aryeh Alter, Hassidic rabbi
• Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter, Hassidic rabbi
• Yisrael Alter, Hassidic rabbi
• Yitzchak Meir Alter, Hassidic rabbi

  Given name

• Alter Kacyzne, Yiddish writer
• Alter Tepliker, Breslover Hasid and author